Classic liberal headline: New Orleans elects

first

white mayor since 1978

by: Bill Dupray posted: 2010-02-07 09:57:00
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So what? Who cares that the guy is white? Was this some kind of repudiation of his predecessor, the black guy, Ray Negin? If is was a repudiation, was it because Negin is black? Or was it because he was incompetent in handling the Katrina distaster?

Incidentally, New Orleans, as Reuters reminds us in a race-centric write-up, is still a majority black city.

Landrieu, a Democrat and Louisiana’s lieutenant governor, won more than 50 percent of the vote, defeating a field of 10 other competitors and avoiding a run-off election. Democrat Troy Henry, a black businessman, came in second.

Landrieu, 49, the son of New Orleans’ last white mayor, Moon Landrieu, rode a wave of discontent over the slow pace of the city’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and rampant crime.

In his victory speech, Landrieu said his election showed that voters wanted a city that was “unified rather than divided.”

About two-thirds of New Orleans’ population is black and Landrieu was helped by his father’s legacy of desegregating the city. Moon Landrieu left office in 1978.

It is too bad liberals aren’t more colorblind. If they would just stop calling people black men and white men and instead judge people by the content of their character, maybe we could improve race relations. You would think that liberal news organizations, who never pass up an opportunity to try to divide Americans by race, would, simply ignore the racial angle in the least “offensive” scenario when a black (oppressed) electorate elects a white (oppressor) politician.